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Projects

Projects per year 2012 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 2 Not started
• 129 Active
• 245 Finished

Projects per year

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• Effect of Alternative chemistry on Rcc growth

  Havis, N., Crawford, C., Fortune, J., Kasperek, C. & Swaney, J.

  UPL Europe Ltd

  16/12/19 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

• Efficient goat breeding for sustainable milk production

  Conington, J.

  1/02/12 → 31/03/15

  Project: Research

• Egenes Evaluation Service

  Coffey, M. & Cosso, M.

  Roslin Technologies Limited

  1/07/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• EGENES - Texel

  Coffey, M. & Kaseja, K.

  The British Texel Sheep Society Ltd

  1/05/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Elucidating bovine host genomic links with rumen microbial genes to improve sustainably feed conversion efficiency using unique selection criteria

  Roehe, R. & Dewhurst, R.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Methane 61%
  • Cattle 38%
  • Microbial Genetics 37%

• EmotiPig, Investigating automatic detection of emotion in biometrically identified pig faces using machine learning

  Baxter, E., Rutherford, K., Farish, M., Smith, M. L. & Hansen, M. F.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/10/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • welfare assessment 100%
  • swine 60%
  • Facial Expression 59%
  • Farms 57%
  • Animal Welfare 54%

• Enabling livestock-keepers to eliminate sleeping sickness (ENABLES)

  Auty, H.

  1/02/19 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• Encapsulated antimicrobial precursors for non-antibiotic treatment of MDRO in poultry Principal

  Houdijk, J., Whyte, F. & Sparks, N.

  Innovate UK (TSB QUARTERLY)

  1/02/19 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• ENERWATER`

  Campbell, J. & Ross, D.

  1/02/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Enhanced monitoring systems for improved health management of dairy-bred beef youngstock

  Duthie, C., Mason, C., Haskell, M., Parker, J. & McCubbin, I.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

  • calf feeding 100%
  • dairy calves 80%
  • respiratory tract diseases 69%
  • bovine respiratory disease 66%
  • Feeding Behavior 62%

• MEASURE: Environmental and economic impacts of improved antibiotics stewardship in poultry systems

  Toma, L., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S. & MacLeod, M.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/08/19 → 1/06/23

  Project: Research

  • anti-infective agents 100%
  • poultry 84%
  • economic impact 70%
  • supply chain 68%
  • marginal abatement cost 64%

• IPM T&T: Environmental Land Management - Integrated Pest Management Test and Trial

  Creissen, H., Meador, E. & Evans, A.

  1/12/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Other

  • integrated pest management 100%
  • land management 63%
  • trial 52%
  • behavior change 49%
  • growers 38%

• Estimating the economic costs of bovine TB incidents on cattle farms in the high risk edge areas of England and Wales

  Barnes, A., Stott, A., Toma, L., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Barratt, A. & Hutchings, M.

  18/06/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• EuroSheep

  Morgan-Davies, C.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • sheep industry 100%
  • lambs 59%
  • Turkey (country) 58%
  • nutrition 53%
  • sheep 37%

• Evaluating the significance of agri-supply chains in rural economies

  Thomson, S., Revoredo Giha, C., Atterton, J., Jones, S. & Barnes, A.

  20/12/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Rural Economy 100%
  • Input-output Table 82%
  • Urban Geography 60%
  • Agriculture 54%
  • Supply Chain 43%

• Evaluation of the effect of novel products on fermentation in a short term and long term incubation with rumen fluid

  Ramos-Morales, E.

  27/09/18 → 15/02/19

  Project: Research

• Evaluation of the effect of treated/untreated feed ingredients for ruminant's diet on gas production over time

  Ramos-Morales, E.

  15/09/18 → 15/10/19

  Project: Research

• Evaluation of the efficacy of biofumigant crops for management of potato cyst nematodes

  Evans, A., Kiezebrink, D., Fenton, B. & Kasperek, C.

  1/04/13 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Evaluation of the Griffin and Calliachar Enterprise Fund

  Atterton, J., Markantoni, M. & Meador, E.

  20/02/17 → 30/06/19

  Project: Research

• Ewe and lamb behaviour and lamb mortality during the periparturient period - effects of nutrition and genotype

  Dwyer, C.

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  1/10/16 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

  Conington, J.

  7/04/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• VWI Cambridge: Exploring Fundamental Values for the Valuing Water Initiative

  Glenk, K. & Schulz, C.

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

  • water 100%
  • document 62%
  • valuation 57%
  • world 46%
  • decision making 40%

• Exploring the gender pay gap in rural Scotland

  Meador, E.

  1/11/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• EtT: Exploring the Twitterverse: Developing novel approaches to scaling the dissemination of expert knowledge on social media platforms in Scotland.

  Meador, E. & Creissen, H.

  1/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Soils 100%
  • Health 93%
  • agriculture 53%
  • farmer 37%
  • social network 33%

• extension to Solutions for sustainable lamb production for more taste & less waste to increase food security in the UK and beyond

  Lambe, N.

  1/11/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Farmer behaviour and TB control: developing an interdisciplinary theory on the spread of infectious diseases

  Davidson, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

• Fin damage in farmed salmonids: an investigation of the underlying causal abnormal behaviour, fin biting, and the identification of risk factors that elicit fin biting on farm

  Haskell, M.

  1/10/15 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Follow up development of nutrition modelling and farm rationing software

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/08/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Formulating value chains for orphan crops

  Revoredo Giha, C., Toma, L., Akaichi, F., Burnett, F., Costa Font, M., Hoad, S. & Dawson, I.

  1/05/17 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • orphan 100%
  • new crops 82%
  • crops 57%
  • Millet 52%
  • crop 47%

• Future-proofing our breeding goals: breeding for climate resilience in UK dairy systems

  Wall, E., Hill, D. & Moran, D.

  1/12/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Garnock Connections: Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L., Robertson, D. & Harrison, B.

  RSPB

  9/10/19 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of beef cattle and sheep

  Coffey, M., Krzyzelewski, T., Moore, K., Kaseja, K. & Stainton, J.

  BASCO DATA LTD

  1/04/15 → 1/07/20

  Project: Research

• Genetic evaluation of British Limousin Cattle Society Data

  Kaseja, K., Moore, K. & Wells, A.

  1/04/16 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Genetic Evaluations for Danish Genetics Pig Data

  Coffey, M.

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

• Genomic management tools to optimise resilience and efficiency GenTORE

  Wall, E., Eory, V. & Bunning, H.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Genomic predictions of mastitis resistance in dairy goats using computational genomics

  Conington, J.

  1/04/15 → 30/03/18

  Project: Research

• Gill health in Scottish farmed salmon

  Reeves, A., Gunn, G., Stirling, J., Pearce, M., Boerlage, A., Humphry, R., Hutchinson, I. & Baughan, J.

  University of Stirling

  10/08/18 → 9/02/22

  Project: Research

• Grass bio-processing alternative protein for human consumption

  Lawson, D.

  1/12/18 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• GrassRoots: A participatory approach to drive improvements in grass breeding and productivity

  Lawson, D., Forster, J., Burnett, F., Meador, E., Galloway, L. & Riddell, I.

  Scottish Government

  1/10/19 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Grass to Gas: Strategies to mitigate GHG emissions from pasture-based sheep emissions

  Conington, J.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• GREEN-SHED_BEIS

  Duthie, C. & Farquhar, J.

  6/04/21 → 6/01/22

  Project: Research

  • cattle 100%
  • ruminant 84%
  • methane 75%
  • meat 69%
  • project 54%

• Healthy animals, healthy food, healthy people

  Dwyer, C., Langford, F., Mitchell, M., Dixon, L. & Turner, S.

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/17 → 30/03/21

  Project: Research

• Historical changes in climate/snow cover in Cairngorm Mountains and to estimate future response

  Spencer, M.

  7/02/20 → 9/03/20

  Project: Research

• Historical varities of winter wheat, spring barley and spring oats at Woodlands field, Craibstone

  Walker, R.

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  2/03/20 → 1/04/21

  Project: Research

• Horse Welfare within Traveller/Gypsy communities: an ethnic group often under-represented in horse welfare research

  Coombs, T.

  The Horse Trust

  1/10/17 → 28/02/22

  Project: Research

• Host pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)

  Sparks, N.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/08/18 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

• ICE Robotics Lying time curve

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C. & March, M.

  1/06/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Dairy Sensors: Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health and welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for Dairy Products

  Dewhurst, R., Ferguson, H. & Haskell, M.

  1/08/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • dairy products 100%
  • processing quality 97%
  • milk production 91%
  • sensors (equipment) 89%
  • environmental technology 51%

• Identifying research priorities for the use of Agri-tech to improve productivity efficiency and sustainability in beef & sheep livestock production systems

  Bowen, J.

  James Hutton Limited

  1/02/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research